A political action committee that works on campaign finance reform filed a complaint Wednesday with the House Office of Congressional Ethics against the 7th district’s current representative, Republican U.S. Rep. Dave Brat.

Brat is running against Democrat Abigail Spanberger, who recently participated in a campaign event with the group that filed the complaint, End Citizens United.

Brat’s website has too many — more than two — sentences about the book, the group says, citing a standard determined in a 2014 Federal Elections Commission Advisory opinion.

“Assuming that Rep. Brat receives royalties from the sale of his book, he appears to be improperly using his campaign funds for his personal enrichment,” End Citizens United President Tiffany Muller wrote in a letter to the ethics office.

The staff creates a report, which can be approved by the Board and could lead to referral to other agencies for further review. If referred to the Committee on Ethics, lawmakers there can impose punishment.

Mechelle, born and raised in Virginia Beach, is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University with a degree in mass communications and a concentration in print journalism. She covered the General Assembly for the university’s Capital News Service and was among 12 student journalists in swing states selected by the Washington Post to cover the 2012 presidential election. For the past five years, she has covered local government, crime, housing, infrastructure and other issues at the Raleigh News & Observer and The Virginian-Pilot, where she most recently covered the state’s biggest city, Virginia Beach.

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